The story
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Old Frenchen-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱerd-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥dés
- Proto-Italic*kord
- Latincor n
- Latin*corem
- Vulgar Latin*corāticum
- Old Frenchcorage
- Anglo-Normanencoragier
- Middle Englishencouragen
- English todayencourage
From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier. Displaced native Old English hiertan, tyhtan, and trymman. By surface analysis, en- + courage.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.